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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Fundamentals and the nature of risk -- Self-defence and gun bans -- Contracted combatants and foreign fighters -- Assisted suicide, euthanasia, and brain death -- Abortion and infanticide -- Citizen killings, civil disobedience, and armed rebellion -- Citizen killings and humanitarian intervention -- Concluding thoughts -- What about killing animals? |
| Summary |
"Citizen Killings: Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk offers a ground breaking systematic approach to formulating ethical public policy on all forms of 'citizen killings', which include killing in self-defence, abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, euthanasia and killings carried out by private military contractors and so-called 'foreign fighters'. Where most approaches to these issues begin with the assumptions of some or other general approach to ethics, Deane-Peter Baker argues that life-or-death policy decisions of this kind should be driven first and foremost by a recognition of the key limitations that a commitment to political liberalism places on the state, particularly the requirement to respect citizens' right to life and the principle of liberal neutrality. Where these principles come into tension Baker shows that they can in some cases be defused by way of a reasonableness test, and in other cases addressed through the application of what he calls the 'risk of harm principle'. The book also explores the question of what measures citizens and other states might legitimately take in response to states that fail to implement morally appropriate policies regarding citizen killings."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Violence -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Violence -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Self-defense -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Self-defense -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Self-defense. |
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Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Euthanasia -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Euthanasia -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Baker, Deane-Peter. Citizen killings. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016 9781472575432 (DLC) 2015034822 (OCoLC)919858247 |
| ISBN |
9781472575456 (electronic book) |
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1472575458 (electronic book) |
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147257544X |
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9781472575449 |
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9781474280518 (online) |
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147428051X |
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9781472575432 |
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1472575431 |
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9781472575425 |
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1472575423 |
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9781472575449 (epdf) |
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